Vincent D'Onofrio

Though he established his career in the 1980s and 1990s with numerous film roles, actor Vincent D'Onofrio became a household name thanks to his nine-season run as the intelligent, but imposing Detecti...
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James Franco has landed his biggest directorial coup to date after snagging his Spring Breakers co-star Selena Gomez and heavyweights Vincent D'onofrio, Ed Harris and Robert Duvall for his next project. Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston and Danny McBride have also signed on for In Dubious Battle, which will be directed by Franco.
The film, based on John Steinbeck's 1936 novel of the same name, is set in a fictional valley in California and focuses on a labour conflict between migrant apple pickers and the local growers’ association.
Principal photography will commence in March (15).

"@RobertDowneyJr not only a great actor he is a movie star reminiscent of actors such as John Barrymore, Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart." Actor Vincent D'onofrio has high praise for his The Judge co-star.

The Judge star Vincent D'onofrio has teamed up with musician Dana Lyn for a punk-poetry venture under the name Slim Bone Head Volt. Released in March (15), the duo's punk spoken word album will feature the tracks I'm A Hamster, I'm A Cat and President D'Onofrio, and the actor and Lyn will preview songs at a Joe's Pub gig in New York on 20 December (14).
A press release accompanying the album news reads: "Slim Bone Head Volt is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps of an actor's brain and a musician's hands.
"The simplified way to describe these noises and dreams is this: D'Onofrio's spoken words set to Lyn's music."
The odd couple became friends during rehearsals for an off-Broadway play several years ago.

The Silence Of The Lambs star Scott Glenn has been cast as Matt Murdock's martial arts mentor Stick in a new Daredevil TV series. Marvel's Daredevil will premiere on Netflix in 2015 and Glenn will join Charlie Cox, Deborah Ann Woll, Rosario Dawson and Vincent D'Onofrio among the cast.
Marvel Studio's TV head Jeph Loeb says, "Stick is one of the most important figures in Matt Murdock's life and Scott Glenn embodies all the qualities of someone so integral to this hero's journey. There are few actors who could bring such the authenticity, gravitas and charisma to such a key role in Matt's journey to become the superhero we call Daredevil."
Blind Daredevil, aka Matt Murdock, was previously played on the big screen by Ben Affleck and portrayed by Cox in the new series.

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Three upcoming TV series are hitting the streets of New York City today. Here's a closer look what you can expect from each show and where you can find them filming.
Daredevil
Marvel recently announced Daredevil will premiere on Netflix in May 2015, forcing fans to wait longer than they had anticipated to check it out.
The 13-episode series will follow the Marvel superhero Daredevil, a blind lawyer named Matt Murdock who fights for justice in the courtroom by day before transforming into a vigilante crimefighter by night. The new adaptation stars Charlie Cox as Daredevil, Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page, Elden Henson as Foggy Nelson, Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk, and Rosario Dawson in an undisclosed role.
You can catch Daredevil filming at Murray and Church St in NYC right now.
The Mysteries of Laura
Debra Messing is back in NYC to star in this NBC series about a homicide detective who has to balance the pressures of work with the pressures of raising rambunctious twin boys as a single mom.
Today, The Mysteries of Laura is filming at 37th St and 5th Ave in New York.
Madam Secretary
This new CBS series stars Tea Leoni as the Secretary of State who is determined to get thing done, even if it means breaking a few rules. Like The Mysteries of Laura, the series also follows her character home where she has to contend with her husband and two teenage children.
Madam Secretary is filming at E 52nd and 3rd Ave in Manhattan today.
Check out more filming locations in NYC and around the country in my Daily Filming Locations.

True Blood star Deborah Ann Woll has been cast as Daredevil's love interest in a new TV series based on the comic book superhero's adventures. Woll will portray Karen Page in the upcoming Marvel series, which will also feature Rosario Dawson and Vincent D'Onofrio.
Page was previously played by Ellen Pompeo on the big screen in 2003, opposite Ben Affleck's Daredevil.
The character was created by Stan Lee and made her debut in comic book form in 1964.
The new TV series will debut on Netflix next year (15).
Ironically, just like her new TV boyfriend Matt Murdock/Daredevil, Woll's real-life beau is battling blindness - E.J. Scott was diagnosed with choroideremia - a rare genetic disease that causes blindness - just after the couple fell in love.

Linkin Park star Joseph Hahn has been given a huge career boost just hours after learning the band's new album has entered the U.S. charts at number three - his movie Mall has been picked up for North American distribution. Paragon Pictures bosses have acquired the rights to the thriller, which was co-written by actor Vincent D'Onofrio and features Gina Gershon, Cameron Monaghan and Peter Stormare.
Hahn, who has directed most of Linkin Park's videos, makes his feature film debut with Mall. The movie, which chronicles a shoot-out at a shopping centre, will be released later this year (14).

Actress Rosario Dawson is set to tackle a new comic book character after landing a role in the new Daredevil series. The Sin City beauty has been cast as a young woman whose efforts to turn around the fortunes of rough New York City neighbourhood Hell's Kitchen bring her face-to-face with the crime-fighting titular superhero.
Dawson will star opposite Boardwalk Empire's Charlie Cox as blind attorney Matt Murdock and his Daredevil alter ego, while Vincent D'Onofrio will portray villainous businessman Wilson Fisk, aka Kingpin.
The Marvel role will mark Dawson's first job on a series since Gemini Division in 2008 and her second comic book adaptation following the Sin City movie franchise.
The show is due to air on online streaming service Netflix next year (15).

Summary

Though he established his career in the 1980s and 1990s with numerous film roles, actor Vincent D'Onofrio became a household name thanks to his nine-season run as the intelligent, but imposing Detective Robert Goren on the long-running procedural drama, "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (NBC, 2001- ). Prior to the acclaim and stardom he received from his television role, D'Onofrio made a quick jump from unknown actor to breakout star as a mentally unstable and put-upon Marine cadet in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" (1987). It would be several years before the young actor was able to have another role of any significance, which came when he played a struggling Hollywood scribe who becomes a homicide victim by the hand of a studio executive in Robert Altman's excellent satire, "The Player" (1992). D'Onofrio settled into a string of leading and supporting turns in smaller movies before showing up as an alien insect in the Will Smith blockbuster "Men in Black" (1997). But it was his nine-year run on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" that truly propelled his career, a role that he played on one of the most-watched shows on the air at the time. Though in 2010 he left the series to once again focus on features, D'Onofrio had firmly established himself as one of the finest character actors working in Hollywood.

Education

Name

American Stanislavsky Theatre

Hialeah-Miami Lakes High School

University of Colorado

Notes

"It was always my plan to build a reputation as a character actor. I have this niche, and I'll be working forever. I don't look like a leading man. I look more like the guy who'll fix your car than steal your girl. I look like the guy who'd come in and take a stain off your couch. Or put a stain on." – D'Onofrio in Movieline, May 1997

In 1998, D'Onofrio co-founded the River Run Film Festival in Winston-Salem, NC along with his sister Elizabeth and their father Gene.

"I found out early that in most scripts, the supporting characters are all the more interesting than the leads, and when the big studios weren't allowing me to do the leads, I found a niche as a character actor, especially after 'Full Metal Jacket.' The work's always interesting, and it allows me and my wife to do whatever we like and never be recognized or bothered." – D'Onofrio in Daily News. Feb. 5, 1998

"When I was younger, I used to take parts home with me. I was this angry young man. I don't do that now because I don't have that anger." – D'Onofrio quoted in Chicago Sun-Times, Aug. 21, 2000